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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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The rich: “if you want to help the poor then have you considered making the rich richer instead? We promise it will trickle down this time”.

US cleaning woman shot and killed after arriving at wrong home Police say they found Maria Florinda Rios Perez, 32, dead after she was shot on the front porch of a home in an Indianapolis suburb.

Sadly, not uncommon according to the article.

US cleaning woman shot and killed after arriving at wrong home

Mamdani is going to implement Shaddup You Face Law.
What's a matter you? Gotta no respect?

US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.

This is disgraceful. No soldier should rely on charity for food. If the world’s most powerful military can’t feed its own, something’s deeply wrong.

"US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It" www.404media.co/army-tells-s...

Farage/Reform over to you. No, I expect deafening silence because they're white.
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Vintage black and white photo of two children standing in a garden, both wearing Jewish stars badges.

8 November 1934 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Benjamin Raphaël Pais, was born in Harlingen.

In November 1942, he was deported to #Auschwitz with his sister Jansje. After the selection, they were murdered in a gas chamber together with their mother Roosje.

Praise from Cathy Wilcox is the highest praise a cartoonist can get.

Moderate Liberals breeding program.
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The difference between France in 1793 and the United States in 2025?

Marie Antoinette was *indifferent* to people starving.

But Donald Trump is using every trick at his disposal to *make sure* they do.

There’s a Literacy Crisis. One Classroom Solution Should Be Obvious. You can't get better at reading until you care about a text.

"We need whole texts—novels, plays, or poems—to care about literature. Teachers are doomed to fail to inspire most students if they must teach deracinated skills for how to decode isolated excerpts..."
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This entire thread is horrifying on its own.

That this sounds way too similar to a Nazi concentration camp just adds to the horror.

I'm also following what I think is the real Craig Foster. At least it has more followers than the one above.

But without a verification tick, it's hard to be certain.

Was surprised to be followed by an a/c claiming to be Craig Foster. Even more surprised it had so few followers for someone so well known.

To test it, I followed back.

Sure enough, it sent a DM very soon after. The real Craig is not going to DM complete strangers just to say hello.

It's fake.

I like my taxes to be used to feed hungry children, not murder innocent fishermen.

Cruelty is the Republican Party's oxygen.

Rafael's party is run by a multi-felon, ignores elections, murders fishermen at sea, disregards court orders and subpoenas, and is openly talking about running Trump for an illegal *third* term, but, yeah, the Democratic Party is the party that disregards laws. Lying idiot.

This times a bersquillion. People need other people to hear them, understand them, believe them. Otherwise we may as well all be fridges connected intermittently to the internet for no apparent reason.

Could be worse.

My favourite autocorrect error: an SMS from a person visiting their loved one in hospital.

The intended message:
"Alan is fine. He's with Chris now."

What it said after autocorrect had finished mangling it:
"Alan is gone. He's with Christ now."

Jesus also said, “Let there be light. & let fossil fuels be the source of that light. Do not worry you ignorant heads about their pollution, for the rich and powerful will sort all of that out. Down the track…sometime.”

“Get these money-lenders out of the temple,” Jesus said, “unless they want to host an exclusive event at 10,000 gold coins per table, which includes access to me and my disciples”.

Little known fact about Jesus: he was also very close to the gambling lobby, and fought hard to shut down freedom of information requests

The Death of Shame Modern Nazis, careless people, and the offensive necessity of caring in a shameful age.

3/ Anyway, do yrselves a favour & give this by @juliusgoat.bsky.social a read:

'... more people should be more ashamed, I think. It seems to me that this death of shame is a big part of how we've arrived here. It's pretty shameful to be OK with Nazism.'

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Imagine being a non-white and/or young woman student at Campion Catholic College. Or somebody who believes in the words of Jesus, and wants to live by them, for that matter. May the nearest deity smite those who could do with a thorough smiting.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is probably the first time in American history a sitting governor has used that particular -- and particularly apt -- phrase in a public speech

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Even the people you assume will take any opportunity to punch down on welfare recipients disagree with what the government is doing.

Vintage sepia-toned photograph of a young girl with curly hair, smiling and holding a toy.

Vintage photo featuring three people. A woman holding a young child who is playfully interacting with another seated person.

4 November 1939 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Anne Marjorie de Vries, was born in Amsterdam.

In September 1944, she was deported to #Theresienstadt ghetto with her mother Berta, and her sister Marianne Anne. From there, they were deported to #Auschwitz on 4 October. All were killed in a gas chamber.

Yes, forcing users to upload documents for age verification is going to end very badly.

Collecting sensitive documents, like ID is an especially bad idea.

Do not collect shit that you do not need to collect, ever.

If it's not collected it can't be leaked.

That is all.

Disabled NT man died naked in cell wearing spit hood and cuffs, inquest told Wayne Hunt was kept in detention after a seizure instead of being taken to hospital, coroner hears * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast An inmate who suffered a seizure was put in handcuffs and a spit hood by prison guards who left him naked in an “at-risk cell” before he died two days later. At an inquest into his death in Darwin on Monday, Northern Territory corrections and health departments apologised to the family of Wayne Hunt for the way he was treated and told the coroner, Elisabeth Armitage, that procedural changes would be made. Continue reading...

Disabled NT man died naked in cell wearing spit hood and cuffs, inquest told

Welfare payments should never be used as a mechanism of control or surveillance